Investigating the digital world

Digital Forensic Readiness Revisited

Digital forensic readiness is a framework managed by organisations to ensure that digital evidence is managed in such a fashion that it survives the scrutiny of litigation and disciplinary matters. It is essential for organisations to manage effective DFR programmes to ensure exculpatory or inculpatory evidence is collected, managed and preserved so that it can be admissible in a court of law. Ivan Claims takes a look at the nine major domains that every digital forensics readiness framework must have and why it matters.

Coming up in the Next issue of Digital Forensics Magazine

To many the complexity of Standards, their numbering and obscure contents fail to make practical sense and confuse the entry points for effective use. A roadmap is provided in this paper for Standard information access and optimal use. Read More »

Evidentiary Challenges: Social media, the Dark Web, and Admissibility

This article takes a look at two categories of remote evidence: social media, and the dark web. We will also examine two interesting cases: The Target store credit card breach; and the civil case of Fero v Excellus Health Plan, Inc.Read More »

The article will help readers understand how to approach a vehicle from a digital forensics’ perspective, it will cover a range of infotainment units from popular manufacturers, data extraction methods and examples of data types found which may be considered intelligence and or used as digital evidence.Read More »